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Legal Anthropology is a sub-sub-discipline of Anthropology which studies conflict management in cultures around the world. Carol Greenhouse describes legal anthropology as "the cross-cultural study of social ordering (1986:28)."

Below is a Bibliography and resources to start off your research in the field of legal anthropology:


ARTICLES


Black, Donald
1981 The Relevance of Legal Anthropology. Contemporary Sociology 10(1):43-46.

Conley, John M., and William M. O'Barr
1993 Legal Anthropology Comes Home: A Brief History of the Ethnographic Study of Law. Loyola of Los Angeles Law Review 27(41).

French, Rebecca R.
1996 Of Narrative in Law and Anthropology. Law & Society Review 30(2):417-436.

Kertzer, David L.
1993 Flaming Crosses and Body Snatchers. In Applying Cultural Anthropology. A. Podolefsky and P.J. Brown, eds. Pp. 217-225: Mayfield P.

MacDonald, Jeffrey L.
2001 Crossing the Minefield: Politics of Refugee Research and Service. In Applying anthropology : an introductory reader. A. Podolefsky and P.J. Brown, eds. Pp. 308-312: Mayfield P.

Podolefsy, Aaron
2001 Contemporary Warfare in the New Guinea Highlands. In Applying anthropology : an introductory reader. A. Podolefsky and P.J. Brown, eds. Pp. 321-329. Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Pub. Co.

Robert A. Williams, Jr.
1994 Linking Arms Together: Multicultural Constitutionalism in a North American Indigenouse Vision of Law and Peace. California Law Review 82:981-.

Scaglion, Richard
1993 Legal Planning in Papua New Guinea. In Applying Cultural Anthropology. Pp. 199-207: Mayfield P.

''Books''

Gibbs, Jr., James L.
2001 The Kpelle Moot. In Applying anthropology : an introductory reader. A. Podolefsky and P.J. Brown, eds. Pp. 313-320: Mayfield.

Gluckman, Max 1965 The Ideas in Barotse Jurisprudence. New Haven: Yale University Press.

Greenhouse, Carol J.
1986 Praying for Justice: Faith, Order, and Community in an American Town. Ithaca: Cornell UP.

Hoebel, Adamson E. 1954. The Law of Primitive Man. Harvard, MA: Atheneum.

Llewellyn, Karl, and E. Adamson Hoebel. 1941 The Cheyenne Way: Conflict and Case Law in Primitive Jurisprudence. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press.

Malinowski, Bronislaw
1985 Crime and Custom in Savage Society. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld.

Nader, Laura, editor 1969 Law in Culture and Society. Chicago, Illinois: Adline Publishing Company

Nader, Laura, Harry F. Todd, editors 1978 The Disputing Process-law in Ten Societies. New York: Columbia University Press

Ortiz, Roxanne Dunbar
1977 The Great Sioux Nation: Sitting in Judgment on America, An Oral History of the Sioux Nation & Its Struggle for Sovereignty: The American Indian Treaty Council Information Center
Moon Books.

''Journals/Associations/Etc.''

Association for Political and Legal Anthropology
http://www.aaanet.org/apla/index.htm

The Law and Society Association
http://www.lawandsociety.org/

Association des Chercheurs en Anthropologie Juridique
http://www.acaj.org/home.htm

Max Planck Institute For Social Anthropology --Project Group Legal Pluralism
http://www.eth.mpg.de/dynamic-index.html?http://www.eth.mpg.de/people/fbenda/cv.html

''PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review''
http://www.anthrosource.net/loi/pol?cookieSet=1

''International Yearbook for Legal Anthropology''
http://www.brill.nl/m_catalogue_sub6_id18789.htm

''Law & Social Inquiry''
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0897-6546&site=1

''Law & Policy''
http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/journal.asp?ref=0265-8240&site=1

''Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law''
http://www.jlp.bham.ac.uk/